I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.